The Cape Lopatka is an extreme point of the Kamchatka Peninsula, located in the southern part of the Peninsula on the territory of the South Kamchatka sanctuary. The promontory washed by the Pacific ocean and the sea of Okhotsk.

On the maps and drawings of the eighteenth century the Cape was designated by different names - the Nose, the Kamchadal Nose, Kuril Lopatka, the southern angle of the Scapula. The modern name of the promontory justified Kamchatka researcher S. Krasheninnikov, explaining the similarity of the shape of the promontory of the same part of the human body - the shoulder blade. Thus in the Russian Siberian dialects the word "blades" means flat and sandy Cape shoals. And the shores of Cape Lopatka is really quite low, composed of sand and pebbles.

Part of the Cape waterlogged and features a large number of tundra lakes. On the Cape there are almost no forests, a significant portion of its area occupied by thickets of cedar and alder thickets. Shallow coastal waters characterized by a large number of brown algae. Here is one of the largest sea otter habitat, the population of which at the shores of the Blade has about a thousand individuals. Severe storms cause sea otters to go on land, where they create a dense rookeries on rocky headlands and small Islands. The unique fauna of the Peninsula guarding with article XIX So here in 1897 organized the seasonal protection of rookeries of sea otters.

The high density of bird migration is explained by the fact that in the autumn season birds flock here, which keep the way South, crossing both coasts of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The fauna of the Cape Lopatka typical of the South of the Kamchatka region. In the Cape there are a lot of foxes and hares, wolverines, brown bears, ermines. On the coast you can find the breeding grounds of marine pinnipeds such as sea lions, seals and ringed seals.

In 1983, the Cape Lopatka along with the surrounding areas became part of the South Kamchatka sanctuary.